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Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph

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Re: Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph

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Post by jeeyoungk »

foota wrote: post #4
tonictato wrote: post #3

I’d love to know the internals here. Is equity being split? Seems like a legal minefield to split a company like this. Amp was built by Sourcegraph, so I assume all investors and employees of Sourcegraph now get equity in Amp?

I have no insight, but I would assume it's a 1-1 sort of split, that is that everyone that previously had one share of sourcegraph now has one share of sourcegraph and one of amp? That seems like the least legally fraught way to do it.

yes that is easiest; or just be a 100% owned subsidiary. (that's what say, waymo is).

the good thing is that you afterwards the cap table of the subsidiary or the spunoff can evolve (ex: waymo / amp can raise money independent of the parent company).

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Post by truekonrads »

I love AMP, it delivers great results. I like that it’s opinionated in how it should be used and for example tells me that I need to hand off context.

I love that I am not welded to one model and someone smart has evaluated what’s best fit for what. It’s a bit a shame they lost Steve Yegge as their brand ambassador. A respected and practicing coder is big endorsement.

To anyone on the fence - give it a go.

Re: Amp, Inc. – Amp is spinning out of Sourcegraph

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

ramraj07 wrote: post #10

Can folks who have compared Amp with other agents share their experience? Some of my colleagues swear this is the best agent out there.

I think it’s great but also pricey. Amp like Claude Code feels like a product used by the people that build it and oddly enough that does not seem to be the case for most coding agents out there.

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Post by incoming1211 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #13
ramraj07 wrote: post #10

Can folks who have compared Amp with other agents share their experience? Some of my colleagues swear this is the best agent out there.

To be honest, I've gave it a try a couple of times, but it's so expensive I'm having a hard time even being able to judge it fairly. The first time I spent just $5, second $10 and the third time $20, but they all went by so fast I'm worried even if I find it great, it's way too expensive, and having a number tick up/down makes me nervous or something. And I'm the type of person who has ChatGPT Pro so I'm not exactly…

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Post by Touche »

incoming1211 wrote: post #17
ramraj07 wrote: post #10

Can folks who have compared Amp with other agents share their experience? Some of my colleagues swear this is the best agent out there.

As someone who switches between most CLIs to compare, Amp is still on top, costs more, but has the best results. The librarian and oracle make it leagues ahead of the competition.

I don't understand how people use these tools without a subscription. Unless you are using it very infrequently paying per token gets costly very fast.

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Post by incoming1211 »

Touche wrote: post #28
incoming1211 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who switches between most CLIs to compare, Amp is still on top, costs more, but has the best results. The librarian and oracle make it leagues ahead of the competition.

I don't understand how people use these tools without a subscription. Unless you are using it very infrequently paying per token gets costly very fast.

Work pays for it. I don't work for stingy companies that don't provide the tools required to do the job. (our team spends > $1000/m EACH on Amp alone)

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Post by sergiotapia »

lukev wrote: post #18

I do wonder what the moat is around this class of products (call it "coding agents"). My intuition is that it's not deep... the differentiating factor is "regular" (non LLM) code which assembles the LLM context and invokes the LLM in a loop. Claude/Codex have some advantage, because they can RLHF/finetune better than others. But ultimately this is about context assembly and prompting.

There is no moat. It's all prompts. The only potential moat is building your own specialized models using the code your customers send your way I believe.
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